Word: rico
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...Navy's top command, with a few exceptions, exemplifies the insulation, compartmented authority, punctilio which make up "the military mind." One of the notable exceptions was onetime Chief of Naval Operations William Daniel Leahy, whom the President last week called in from Puerto Rico, reportedly to help coordinate the confused preliminaries to rearmament. The Army's George Marshall is also exceptional-a brilliant, flexible iconoclast whose war on mental dry rot has done much to stimulate and modernize the service. But even he must placate work with and through traditionalists who outnumber him. Last week the Army-Navy...
Eleanor Roosevelt accepted chairmanship of the committee to distribute the fund. Last week, Mrs. Fisher's Children's Crusade was on the march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every...
...Editor who failed to include Hawaii and Puerto Rico in the U. S., a sharp rebuke. It is quite true that the U.S.collects some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 more in sugar taxes than it pays out in benefits; true also that the tax of about ½? a lb. is originally paid by processors. But after deducting about $47,000,000 net revenue to the Government from sugar taxes and duty, U. S. consumers pay, according to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, between $215,000,000 and $250,000,000 extra each year for their sugar (at current prices...
Emerson is to head the division of territories and island possessions, which includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, termed Emerson's post the number one position in the administration of overseas dependencies...
...There are two ways of looking at the U. S.: as 48 States, in all of which together there is only one leprosarium; as a nation, which is much better off because Hawaii has two leprosaria; the Canal Zone, one; the Philippine Islands, three; Puerto Rico, one. TIME might well have taken the more embracing view...